BUSHKILL — After more fine tuning, the master plan of Highland Village will go through public scrutiny.

Lehman Township will hold a public meeting Thursday at 6:30 p.m. for comment on the 5,000-plus unit mixed-use development on the site of the former Tamiment Resort and Conference Center.

The meeting at the Lehman Township municipal building on Municipal Drive in Bushkill will feature the township's supervisors, planning commission and developers from the Wolfington Companies, which owns the land and is the main developer on the project.

Representatives from Pulte Homes, the project home builder, also are likely to be on hand.

The plan already has garnered harsh public criticism for the prospect of raising school property taxes and building in an area that does not have the infrastructure to handle almost 12,000 new residents in 5,318 units when the development is scheduled to be completed around 2030.

The plan has been available at the township office for months, and has already had public input.

January's public input is another step in the process.

"We're always going to have questions," Lehman Township Board of Supervisors Chairman John Sivick said, despite at least 25 meetings with development representatives this year alone.

Currently, developers have told the township that 50 percent of the development will be dedicated to the "active adult" community. Active adult units allow only people over 55 to own the home — and no children under 18 to live there.

The active adult community is designed to lighten the tax base because it doesn't put any children in the local schools.

Developers even have said as much as another 20 percent on top of that could end up being active adult.

While taxpayers would love the idea of almost 3,000 of the development's units dedicated to active adult, Sivick said don't count on it.

When the township laid out the zoning for the development, the township required the development to be 40 percent active adult.

"And that's all we can enforce," he said. "Anything else would be great, but all we can guarantee is 40 percent."

A project this big with the potential to alter the Poconos landscape has garnered much attention — and has been left susceptible to rumor.

Supervisor Paul Menditto said the Jan. 4 meeting is the perfect opportunity for anyone to find out the truth about what is going on at the development.

"We're hoping for a good turnout," he said. "We want people to get the real story."